Phantom

A Poem

Published on May 30, 2007 By Hazel Target In Poetry

By this law I have lived:
one cannot be happy with another
if one is not happy with oneself.

But what self-improvement have I pursued
that was not to make myself desirable?
Do I wear chapstick for health,
or on the off chance that I meet someone tonight?

I wonder: could I be happy
alone on a desert island? Even if
I had no one, I could be whole.
Whole, like an amputee with phantom feet.

Comments

Buddah Moskowitz

on May 30, 2007

Hazel,

You couldn't have been more appropriately named... your writing is right on Target.
Seriously, you have an incredible gift. Keep writing, yours is a talent true and strong and sure.

Thanks
if you write a book, I'll buy it

thanks again
Moskowitz the Envious

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